This just in: News from Silent Circle, Attendify and more

Posted July 29, 2016. By Sophie Cassidy

Some amazing startups and investors shared some great news with us this past week, and now we’re sharing it with you.

Congratulations first to some of our startup alumni – it’s been a huge week:
Congrats to Silent Circle on their $50 million in fresh funding. The team have been to four of our conferences, and are returning to Web Summit 2016. It’s great also to see one of our partners leading the round, Santander.

Congrats also to some more alumni: Attendify who raised a $1.7 million; Fuller who raised $4.2 million; Bestmile on their $2.5 million; YC and Web Summit alum Birdly on their seed round, as well as BimBimBikes.

Daimler, owner of Mercedes-Benz, just bought 60% of ride sharing app Hailo, whose founding team have been at every Web Summit since 2011. We hope to see some of the team in Lisbon once again.

Spotlight on two incredible startups joining us at Web Summit this year for the first time:Luxe, the on-demand valet service, has received a $50 million investment from Hertz.

Affectiva, who are building robots that can read our emotions, raised $14 million led by Fenox.